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 $1 admission to the Dallas Arboretum during August. Discounted parking $5.

Experience the great outdoors this summer by taking a stroll through theTrinity River Audubon Center in Dallas when it lowers its admission to $1 during July and August.

The park features 5 miles of trails through wetlands, forest and prairie on the edge of the Great Trinity Forest.The site also offers great birding opportunities with the 60 resident bird species.

In addition, you can tour the 21,000-square-foot LEED-certified visitors center, which features educational exhibits and a nature store. Bring a lunch for the picnic area. 

Build a scarecrow to decorate your home garden. Each family will work as a team to design an individual scarecrow.  Drop in to this come-and-go program with the Garden’s Education Team. Free.

The Dallas Arboretum decks out for the autumn with fall flowers as many as 50,000 pumpkins, gourds and squash to form the storybook pumpkin village. Take home a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. Trick or treat during Family Fun Weekend Oct. 26-27.

Groups, families and individuals can choose any one of the seven locations listed in the registration form as a cleanup location. 

All volunteers are invited to the after-party at the Panther Island Pavilion (located behind the TCC/RadioShack campus) from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. with free food, door prizes and entertainment by Radio Disney AM 620.

Register by Sept. 8 and receive a free T-shirt.

The city of Plano offers an pportunity to operate a real Recycling Truck, tour behind the scenes of some of the city's collection services and explore ways you can help manage waste better while also saving money. Environmental Waste Services staff will answer questions. Free.

Nature Explore Family Club aims to help connect children and families with nature and each other through fun, age-appropriate activities. Free.

The Heard Museum and Prairie & Timbers Audubon Society offer guided bird walks at the Heard Museum and Sanctuary on the second Saturday of each month September through May. Free with admission.

Join Fort Worth Interfaith Power & Light for a vegetarian potluck and a presentation from Anna Clark about her story about making the environment a priority. She will share eco-tips for making our lives greener.

Fort Worth Interfaith Power & Light hosts this event featuring a vegetarian potluck, a meditation on the connectedness of creation and a practical example of an inter-related system through the use of aquaponics presented by Adam Cohen from Green Phoenix Farms.